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SHIFTING SPACES

Those Women Productions presents Shifting Spaces, a trio of bold new one-act plays about individuals who fight passionately for and believe courageously in their right to be themselves.

The plays reflect a broad spectrum of feminist perspectives. vessels draws on oral histories to reveal the little-known stories of lesbians in Nazi Germany; in They/Them, a transgender teen fights for their mothers love; and in Revelation a once-married couple takes a darkly comic tour through changing gender roles in marriage and beyond.

The production opens Friday, March 23, 2018, and plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm through April 8 (no performance on Easter Sunday, April 1) at the Live Oak Theater, 1301 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.

The plays of Shifting Spaces are:

vessels (World Premiere)

It's Germany, 1944. Are you a bitch or a whore? Is she your lover, friend, sister, acquaintance, colleague, or occasion for sin?

Commissioned for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, this poetic drama reveals the little-known stories of lesbians in Nazi Germany, written by Kim Yaged, directed by Elizabeth Vega.

Cast12-17 Elliot Stanley25-54 Jean CaryAGED GiGi A. Tasse

Revelation (West Coast Premiere)

Its judgment day, and John, a man in his thirties, finds himself buried beside Mary, a woman very much his senior, who claims to recognize him. But Mary is nothing like any woman John has ever known.

A darkly comic tour through changing gender roles and social expectations, by Canadian playwright Shirley Barrie, directed by Lily Tung Crystal.

CastMARY Jeannie BarrogaJOHN Lijesh Krishnan

They/Them (World Premiere)

On the eve of surgery, Sam comes home to pack and to demand that their mother see them, and love them.

A high-stakes, lyrical encounter between an African-American mother and her transgender son, by Bay Area playwright Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko, directed by Norman Patrick Johnson.